ambagious

pronunciation

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  • Adjective:
    roundabout and unnecessarily wordy

Word Origin

ambagious (adj.)
1650s, from French ambagieux, from Latin ambagiosus, from ambages "circuits, circumlocutions," from amb- "about" (see ambi-) + agere "to drive" (see act (n.)).